Mon edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

တုဲ (tuy)[1]

  1. to be finished over to be ready to succeed to be accomplished.[1]
    တြုံဗှ်ေဒလိုက်ကတဵုနူပၟတ်တုဲ က လေၚ်စဴကၠုၚ်လ္ပာ်သ္ၚိဗှ်ေ/kraoh pe̤h həlɒ̤c kətɒ nṳ kəmot toə kəliəŋ cao klɤŋ kəpac hɒəʔ pe̤h raʔ/Your husband got up from the fire and came back to your home.[2]

Usage notes edit

Haswell (1874) includes this term as “affix. past tense,”[3] while Dryer (2013) regards Mon as one of the languages that have no tense-aspect inflection, citing Bauer (1982: passim).[4][5]

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32
  2. ^ Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages[1], volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600
  3. ^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 69
  4. ^ Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon[3], SOAS, University of London, archived from the original on 21 November 2022
  5. ^ Dryer, Matthew S. (2013) “Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes”, in Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin, editors, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Available online at https://wals.info/chapter/69, Accessed on 2020-10-11.)